Thursday, October 9, 2025
H.H. Leonards, Founder and CEO of O Museum in the Mansion hosted an introduction to Heavens Door, the Ascension Kentucky Straight Bourbon created by music icon Bob Dylan on October 7.
Dylan’s history as a great musician in folk music and pop culture is well known. His honors include the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize in Literature. He is also a sculptor as presented in the intricate iconic gate artwork featured in the Heaven’s Door portfolio with a different gate in scale to allow for more of each piece of artwork to be seen in its entirety. His paintings which have appeared in art exhibits around the world, are also on bottles of select aged bourbons.
Jon Marks of Spirits Investment Partners and Alex Moore, award-winning master blender for Heaven’s Door Distillery, spoke on how this brand came about and the process of creating bourbon.
As a side note in 1964, the U.S. Congress declared bourbon whiskey as a “distinctive product of the United States” by concurrent resolution. Most brands are produced in Kentucky and Tennessee, where there is a high concentration of limestone for the filtering process.
The Heaven’s Door brand features Ascension Kentucky Straight Bourbon, (aged for more than five years), Tennessee Straight Bourbon, double barrel whiskey, and straight rye whiskey.
O Museum in the Mansion, with its 100 rooms and 80 secret doors, filled with art and antiques, houses among its iconic memorabilia those of Bob Dylan.
As H.H. Leonards has noted about Dylan’s music, words and art, that has “challenged convention and elevate the human spirit… ‘Heaven’s Door’ is more than a bourbon, it’s a reflection of his journey—layered, bold, and uncompromising. We are honored to open our doors to this next chapter in his legacy.”
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O Museum in the Mansion at 2020 O Street NW, is a Washington, DC historical landmark, and will mark its 45th Anniversary on November 12, 2025.
Heaven’s Door is being distributed by Heaven’s Door Spirits, LLC; and, Heaven’s Door Distillery. Heaven’s Door is available worldwide, online, and in liquor stores everywhere.